Murali's action not clean: Gilchrist

[silentstriker]

The hits keep on coming

Not a newsflash. But he says something odd:

He said though the argument that Murali's suspect action was an optical illusion was legally correct, it was a "direct attack to the spirit of the game".

If he does think it was an optical illusion, then how would it be an attack on anything? Doesn't the whole point of this rest with whether you believe there is an optical illusion or not?

 

[Migara]

Ajantha Mendis chucks, and soon you'll find that Amit Mishra also chucks.

 

[Precambrian]

Ha Ha yeah, the vanity of it! Such a loser.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Ajantha Mendis chucks, and soon you'll find that Amit Mishra also chucks.

Nah, wait till Parmar comes onto the scene. The cat will be well and truly let among the pigeons then.

 

[Migara]

Nah, wait till Parmar comes onto the scene. The cat will be well and truly let among the pigeons then.

Heard him as a Murali clone, but he has far more variety than Murali. I saw him bamboozling batsmen in U19 WC. Only his stock ball is less venomous than Murali, and that may be the reason that he has not broken in to the IND side.

 

[BoyBrumby]

If it wasn't a moderator who started this thread I'd say someone was mischief making. No good is going to come of this, everyone's already made their minds up.

 

[GIMH]

He's not the first person to label Murali a chucker (if not in so many words) in his autobiography, won't be the last either

 

[Precambrian]

He's not the first person to label Murali a chucker (if not in so many words) in his autobiography, won't be the last either

Expects Harby to target Warne as "drug-thug-mug"

 

[duffer]

Meh, this has been done so many times before. Gilly's autobiography getting less interesting by the day.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Expects Harby to target Warne as "drug-thug-mug"

8 posts into a thread about Murali before someone mentions "Warne" & "drugs" in the same sentence. About average I'd say.

 

[Migara]

8 posts into a thread about Murali before someone mentions "Warne" & "drugs" in the same sentence. About average I'd say.

Or the inevitable I would say.

 

[GIMH]

8 posts into a thread about Murali before someone mentions "Warne" & "drugs" in the same sentence. About average I'd say.

Warne > Murali

 

[Top_Cat]

Warne > Murali

Nah, Murali > Warne. There's no way Warne got up to 14 degrees flexion.

 

[GIMH]

I'm sure you'll all agree that my graph proves that Warne is better

 

[Richard]

Nothing new, Gilchrist said such a thing (and was rightly repremanded for it) in, what was it, 2002? 2003? Now he's no longer an employee of the ACB he can say whatever he wants without being fined. Won't win him many friends though, and I've always thought that was important to him.

As for the whole Murali-bowling-action thing:

 

[four_or_six]

I think Gilchrist is more complaining at the ICC for changing the rules than anything else.

 

[Goughy]

As for the whole Murali-bowling-action thing:

It would be boring if it had ever been dealt with. Instead...

 

[Richard]

It has been dealt with though. It's just some people can't accept realities.

 

[silentstriker]

If it wasn't a moderator who started this thread I'd say someone was mischief making. No good is going to come of this, everyone's already made their minds up.

I thought about it for ten minutes before starting. I'll close it right away if it gets bad. The only reason I started it is because of what Gilly said - that he accepts that there is an illusion, but yet that doesn't matter?

 

[Goughy]

It has been dealt with though. It's just some people can't accept realities.

Please explain.

Murali has and always had clealy chucked.

The decision to keep allowing him to play is nothing short of political. If he had have been English Id have been embarassed to have had him represent the team.

Just as I was embarrassed when I saw Johan Botha bowl for the first time and Shabbir Ahmed.

Ive been involved with games where umpires have refused to call chuckers as 'its not called at the international level so Im not calling it here'

It has had ramifications throughout cricket. Its a joke, an old joke, but still a joke.